St. Johns County Sheriff's Office/ Provided-- 10/26/11 -- Jurors deliberated several hours before finding a 38-year-old Palm Coast man guilty of two counts of sexual battery of a minor between the ages of 12 and 18. Douglas Wayne Hall, 38, had pleaded not guilty.(St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, Provided)

Booking Mug/JSO -- 12/15/11 -- A 48-year-old Westside woman who told her employer that she might have "gotten a little carried away" is in jail after at least $100,000 in unauthorized overtime was uncovered in employment records at a doctor's office on Oak Street, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Patricia Ann Scott of Biggs Street had already been arrested Dec. 9 on charges of filing a false Medicaid claim and trafficking in opium when additional charges were filed against her Wednesday, according to jail records. Those charges are employee theft and fraudulent use of credit cards. The doctor, Andrew Weinstein, learned of the unauthorized overtime Aug. 25 and fired Scott, who had done his payroll, according to the arrest report. Further investigation by an accountant showed overtime ranging from 6.5 to 140 hours per week had been routinely added to her paycheck beginning in 2009. The financial investigation also revealed that the doctor's corporate credit card, which had been canceled, was reinstated and used to pay for about $5,000 in gas, food and a JEA and telephone bill. Police found surveillance video showing Scott using the card, the arrest report said.(Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, booking mug)

Booking Mug/JSO -- 12/15/11 -- A Jacksonville man has been charged with one count of possessing computer pornography among 48 arrests in a statewide child computer sex-crime investigation. Steven Robert Deloge, 37, was the only Northeast Florida suspect charged as part of Operation Amalgamate, a six-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The arrests were made in 17 counties across the state. Investigators found suspects in chat rooms, instant messaging and dating sites, social networks and online classified sites, according to the agency. The investigation began in July after the Attorney General's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement merged cyber-crime units (Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, booking mug)

Patricia Ann Scott of Biggs Street had already been arrested Dec. 9 on charges of filing a false Medicaid claim and trafficking in opium when additional charges were filed against her Wednesday, according to jail records. Those charges are employee theft and fraudulent use of credit cards.

The doctor, Andrew Weinstein, learned of the unauthorized overtime Aug. 25 and fired Scott, who had done his payroll, according to the arrest report. Further investigation by an accountant showed overtime ranging from 6.5 to 140 hours per week had been routinely added to her paycheck beginning in 2009.

The financial investigation also revealed that the doctor’s corporate credit card, which had been canceled, was reinstated and used to pay for about $5,000 in gas, food and a JEA and telephone bill. Police found surveillance video showing Scott using the card, the arrest report said.

Steven Robert Deloge, 37, was the only Northeast Florida suspect charged as part of Operation Amalgamate, a six-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He remains in jail on $500,000 bail, charged with use of a computer to solicit consent from a parent or guardian for a child to be used in pornography.

The arrests were made in 17 counties across the state. Investigators found suspects in chat rooms, instant messaging and dating sites, social networks and online classified sites, according to the agency.

According to the State Attorney’s Office, Chase took the key to the family’s locked storage trailer without the knowledge of his parents or grandfather, unlocked it and removed rifles.

Police Sgt. Marty Cotchaleovitch said the boys weren’t fighting, so there was no reason for the shooting to be called malicious. Chase was handling a .22-caliber rifle and believed it was unloaded, and “he went to set it down and it went off,” Cotchaleovitch said.

Circuit Judge Wendy Berger sentenced Douglas Wayne Hall to 30 years each for two counts of sexual battery of a minor 12 to 18 years old. The sentences are to run consecutively, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

The assaults took place from 2007 to 2009 in St. Johns County.

Scott Butler

Couple killed while crossing Florida A1ATwo people crossing Florida A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach were killed Thursday evening when they were hit by a pickup truck, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.